Like Uber—actually, Uber— but for poached eggs. UberEATS— the food delivery app spun off from the cab-hailing service— will start delivering breakfast in London, in a bid to claw market shares from Deliveroo, JustEat and Amazon food delivery, among many others. The service, launched in partnership with restaurants and eateries including PAUL, Coco di Mama, Tossed, Leon, Bagel Factory, […]

Apple is tipped to be finally joining the Partnership on AI— a club of tech giants researching artificial intelligence, launched in September 2016 by Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet, Microsoft, and IBM. The group’s stated goals are “to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform […]

Raspberry Pi , the British mini-computer loved by makers and coders worldwide, could soon gain brand new Artificial Intelligence capabilities, courtesy of Google. “Google is going to arrive in style in 2017. The tech titan has exciting plans for the maker community,” Raspberry Pi announced in a blog post on its website. “It intends to make a […]

DeepMind , the London-based Artificial Intelligence lab owned by Alphabet, is ramping up its engagement with academia as some of its researchers start teaching AI courses in UK universities this month. In a post appeared on DeepMind blog, company co-founder and CEO Demis Hassabis announced that—starting in January— research lead Thore Graepel will lead a module called Advanced Topics […]

The US National Highway Traffic Administration has decided against a recall of Tesla Autopilot, following a six-month-long investigation into a fatal car crash involving the technology. In a report, the governmental agency explained that it “did not identify any defects in the design or performance of [Tesla’s automatic emergency braking] or Autopilot systems of the subject vehicles nor […]

Food delivery startup Deliveroo has announced it will open its global head office in London, and create 300 more technology jobs as a consequence. In a statement, the British company founded and led by Will Shu said it is looking for “high-skilled, high-tech” software and hardware engineers to expand its team as it inaugurates a new […]

Snap Inc, the Los Angeles-based company that gave the world the instant videomessaging app Snapchat, is opening its European headquarters in London. In a statement, a Snap spokesperson commented on the new hub’s imminent debut explaining that “the UK’s strong creative industries make this a great place to build a global business.” The company, which is estimated […]

Waymo, the newly spun-off Alphabet subsidiary working on self-driving cars, will deploy a platoon of autonomous vehicles on public roads later this month, as part of a partnership with car manufacturer Fiat Chrysler Automobiles . Speaking at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Waymo CEO John Krafcik revealed that the company— which up to last December was […]

An online platform is using data science to suggest the best pairing of wine and cheese. The programme, called the Wine and Cheese Map, was developed by a University of Toronto scholar building on Cytoscape, a software that creates visual maps to understand relationships between genes and molecules. At his wife’s suggestions, professor Gary Bader repurposed the system into […]